RACF Contract Job Trends in England

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 486 525
Rank change year-on-year -88 +39 +75
Contract jobs citing RACF 24 11 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.056% 0.044% 0.082%
As % of the System Software category 0.55% 0.35% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 26
10th Percentile £367 £478 £460
25th Percentile £513 £506 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £613
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -3.27% -5.22%
75th Percentile - £600 £700
90th Percentile £650 - £750
UK median daily rate £600 £585 £613
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.49% +2.08%

All System Software Skills
England

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,328 3,128 4,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 12.56% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,909 2,080 2,914
10th Percentile £213 £214 £206
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £608
90th Percentile £681 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 74 205
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £23.00 £19.91 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.61% +27.78% -55.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £77.15 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £90.68 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.22%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RACF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

RACF job vacancy trend in England

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RACF in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RACF in England

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the England region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -56 21 £600 -
Yorkshire -45 15 £600 -
North West - 6 £488 -
London -71 3 £400 -17.95% 2
North East - 1 - -
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) CICS
2 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) IaaS
2 5 (20.83%) PaaS
2 5 (20.83%) SaaS
2 5 (20.83%) Serverless
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) SSL
2 5 (20.83%) IPsec
2 5 (20.83%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.17%) HTTP
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Db2
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
General
1 15 (62.50%) Banking
2 12 (50.00%) Finance
3 10 (41.67%) Legal
4 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Administrator
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Technical Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Technical Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) DB2 Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) CICS Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) DB2 Programmer
6 1 (4.17%) DB2 Systems Programmer
6 1 (4.17%) Information Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Programmer
6 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) ISPF
2 11 (45.83%) Middleware
3 6 (25.00%) OAuth
3 6 (25.00%) SAML
4 5 (20.83%) OAuth2
4 5 (20.83%) OpenID
4 5 (20.83%) Web Services
4 5 (20.83%) XACML
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) Mainframe
2 10 (41.67%) Clustering
3 5 (20.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
5 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) zOS
2 2 (8.33%) MVS
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) ITIL
2 10 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 6 (25.00%) Project Management
5 5 (20.83%) ArchiMate
5 5 (20.83%) BPEL
5 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Security Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) SOA
5 5 (20.83%) Software Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) JCL
3 4 (16.67%) CLIST
3 4 (16.67%) REXX
4 3 (12.50%) COBOL
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.17%) CISA
1 1 (4.17%) CISM
1 1 (4.17%) CISSP
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) ACF2
2 3 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (12.50%) CA Endevor
3 3 (12.50%) Tivoli
3 3 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) IBM
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Broadcom
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle